There is a site dedicated to the topic actually: http://contrastrebellion.com/ http://contrastrebellion.com/ I think there is a difference between "looks good

There is a site dedicated to the topic actually: http://contrastrebellion.com/ http://contrastrebellion.com/ I think there is a difference between "looks good aesthetically" and "readable" and sometimes making it more readable doesn't overlap with pure artistic choices, so sometimes it's the best designers that fall into this trap. Edit: see previous discussion on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807047 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807047